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"Mr President, I think the elections on 29 November are an opportunity for Honduras, and the European Parliament is obliged to send observers to the elections. This would not be to legitimise them, as the Left are saying, because that would be illegal, but to see how the elections are conducted.
At the same time, I would like to say that Honduras is only a one-hour flight away from Cuba, from Havana. No elections have been held there for 50 years. Cuba is ruled by a communist tyrant who puts all his opponents in prison. The European Parliament has called for their release many times, and even awarded the Sakharov Prize to the ‘Ladies in White’, but Fidel Castro did not allow them to visit the European Parliament to collect the award. I would like the Commission, the Council and the left-hand side of this Chamber to demand rights and liberties for the citizens of Cuba with equal resoluteness."@en1
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